Bergdahl conviction overturned

| July 26, 2023

 

Remember Bowe Bergdahl? Captured by the Taliban after going walkabout, Bergdahl was feted by the Obama White House until convicted of desertion. Probably no need to point out the US service member injured while looking for him, either…

The ruling from U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton in Washington says that military judge Jeffrey Nance, who presided over the court-martial, failed to disclose that he had applied to the executive branch for a job as an immigration judge, creating a potential conflict of interest.

for those who wonder, Walton is a W appointee from 2001.

Walton noted that former President Donald Trump had strongly criticized Bergdahl during the 2016 presidential campaign. Bergdahl’s lawyers argued that Trump’s comments placed undue command influence on Nance.

Walton rejected the specific argument surrounding undue command influence, but he said a reasonable person could question the judge’s impartiality under the circumstances.

Bergdahl was charged with desertion and misbehavior before the enemy after the then-23-year-old from Hailey, Idaho, left his post in Afghanistan in 2009. He said he was trying to get outside his post so he could report what he saw as poor leadership within his unit, but he was abducted by the Taliban and held captive for nearly five years.

During that time, Bergdahl was repeatedly tortured and beaten with copper wires, rubber hoses and rifle butts. After several escape attempts, he was imprisoned in a small cage for four years, according to court documents.

Several U.S. servicemembers were wounded searching for Bergdahl. In 2014, he was returned to the U.S. in a prisoner swap for five Taliban leaders who were being held at Guantanamo Bay.

The swap faced criticism from Trump, then-Sen. John McCain and others. Both Trump and McCain called for Bergdahl to face severe punishment.

In 2017, he pleaded guilty to both charges.

Not being a ‘lawer’, I can only wonder why IF HE PLED GUILTY the judge’s future position (which only created a ‘potential appearance of lack of impartiality’) is of any relevance.

 

 

Category: "Teh Stoopid", Afghanistan, Breaking News

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Anonymous

The Army has to take him back?

Fm2176

I’d say I hope so, but the Army would probably make him a Senior NCO and offer transition surgery, giving him a nice cushy Joint assignment under ADM Levine and protecting him against any detractors.

The guy deserted, pled Guilty, and his actions affected the lives of many other Americans who served honorably and whose families continue to feel loss to this day.

Ship him back to Afghanistan, and if his family wants to see “their boy” become a man, send them too.

Sapper3307

Perhaps a MSM for the future SMA?

Anonymous

Fjardeson

Great scene and great movie!

HT3

No politics here…
The guy deserted 100%. Once he realized how fucked up these “freedom fighters” on the other side were, he wanted back to the states.

Anonymous

It was like that old joke about Hell: Oh, you’re not gay– when then you won’t like Thursday much either!

Odie

Well, it’s been nearly 15 years. Those that remember what he did, and what it cost to get him back, would just as soon see his life leaking out of him in a dirty gutter somewhere.

Those that don’t remember, and probably never heard of him, could care less about him or his story.

Screw bergdahl. Anybody have the over/under odds on media interviews, book deals etc?

He will most likely be turned into a media darling if he bashes/praises the correct people.

5JC

Fuck that fucked up goat fucker.

26Limabeans

He pled guilty to a hanging offense.
What am I missing here?

Graybeard

Damn.

President Elect Toxic Deplorable Racist SAH Neande

Amen

QMC

Okay. We’ll play that game.

He has to report back to his old FOB location in Afghanistan by himself immediately and finish up the remaining six months or so of duty on deployment.

5JC

I fail to see how giving him exactly what he wants is punishment.

President Elect Toxic Deplorable Racist SAH Neande

There’s no “there”, there.
I’m presuming just an open field.
No buildings, no support, no mess hall, no medic, no NUTTIN’.
Let’s see how quickly he succumbs to the whines and the snivels.

Yep. That’s it.

Oh, and if his old buddies recapture him, then so be it. Don’t think we have anymore high ranking Taliban commanders to exchange for him, so, oh well.

Which is why he will seek immediate reunification with his beloved “captors”. They can pick up right where they left off.

QMC

Yeah, aside from a minor PR push, I don’t know how much more use he would be to them alive at this point.

5JC

A mouth is a mouth, a hole as a hole.

RCAF-CHAIRBORNE

Not a purdy mouth, but it will do

Anonymous

Squeal like a pig, infidel…

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President Elect Toxic Deplorable Racist SAH Neande

Man-boy love Thursday

KoB

Sure, give this chicken sh^t, c0cksucking, deserter a new trial. Then hang his azz.

MIRanger

Well then…I guess he will have to be retried. Maybe we can have a real Dog-n-Pony show to distract everyone from the election going on, and the judge can hand down an approriate sentence based on his confession. He can wait on military death row until they get around to his execution!!!

President Elect Toxic Deplorable Racist SAH Neande

No, no, no. Reinstate him. Put him back in the ranks (but not a leadership position – surest way to incite mutiny). Put him down a Ft Polk, LA (“Camp Swampy”)
And then one dark, moonless night……he just …..disappears (into the swamps – aided by some senior non-coms – and alligators).
“Why no, I haven’t seen him. He must have deserted again. I’ll notify you if I see him.”

You know then now that I think about it The Army is kind of short-handed right now. Somebody needs to go to Poland and train the Ukrainians. He could give them great tips on how to join team Russia.

Anna Puma

Walton strained at gnats and tortured the legal process until it yelled “Lizzo!” to reach that decision.

Future Democrat nominee to the US Supreme Court as he is the very model of a modern progressive judge. And while we are at it, promote Bergdahl to four stars and make him the Army general on the JCS.

Anonymous

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Prior Service

Time to make old Blow Terddahl persona non grata.

ninja

NEVER Forget The Six Soldiers Who Were Killed Searching for This Deserter!
“The six men reportedly killed while searching for Bergdahl were identified as Staff Sgt. Clayton Bowen and Pfc. Morris Walker on Aug. 18, 2009; Staff Sgt. Kurt Curtiss on Aug. 26; 2nd Lt. Darryn Andrews and Pfc. Matthew Michael Martinek on Sept. 4; and Staff Sgt. Michael Murphrey on Sept. 5.”

Rest In Peace To Those Six Warriors.

The Deserter better find his Maker before he departs this world…. 🤔 

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Sparks

Piece of shit.

RGR 4-78

Disgusting.

Skippy

Was then and is still a embarrassment
What a piece of shit

Stacy0311

So “vacated”.
Does that mean he gets a new court martial?
If so, reinstate ALL the charges against him.
See if he still wants to plead guilty.
If not, go full court martial.
And get every service member who was wounded looking for his dumb ass sitting in the front row. Or the family members of those who were killed looking for his dumb ass.
Also inform his lawyer that they’ll be going for the maximum punishment.

Judge Reggie wants to be stupid, let the Army respond with malicious compliance.

Or maybe the government will appeal this ruling and the circuit court will toss it.

Because if they let Bergdahl walk, it’ll drive recruiting numbers even lower (if that’s even possible)

fm2176

“Because if they let Bergdahl walk, it’ll drive recruiting numbers even lower (if that’s even possible)”

“They” aren’t worried about that. Our current crop of military “leadership”, both civilian and uniformed, are much more concerned about DEI nonsense and ensuring that we, well, they now that I’m retired, fully embrace the culture shift in this country.

Give enough incentives, and keep getting “influencers” like the transgender Tiktok kid who seems to have gone viral showing off his (her?) Army-issued hormone pills to make content. Public Affairs can keep pressing stories about MAJ Jones, whose life was saved when he became she. Further, lower qualifications to permit all but the absolute dregs of society enlist for a nice non-deployable contract with all the free medical you can want and then some.

Of course, letting Bergdahl off will alienate a lot of people who might otherwise serve well, while being fully deployable and capable of performing at peak levels. But people like Milley aren’t worried about that. They want to understand White rage, and his former teammate Levine wants to ensure that we all go through the puberty we deserve, not that which biology predetermines.

QMC

This guy had previously washed out of Coast Guard boot camp. Army granted him a waiver.

My fear is that with all the recruiting shortfalls, there’s many more Bowe Bergdhal’s amongst the ranks. See the most recent numb nuts that fled across the DMZ to North Korea as an example…..

7711C20

Don’t worry, when Travis King comes back the Biden Administration will tell us he too served with distinction, forgetting all his past “misunderstandings.”.

5JC

The norks are famously homicidally paranoid. So I’m hoping we’ve heard the last of him.

ninja

Check out the story about PFC Joseph T White:

“THE DEFECTION OF AMERICAN SOLDIER
PRIVATE FIRST CLASS JOSEPH WHITE TO NORTH KOREA”

https://www.psywarrior.com/WhiteDefectiontoNK.html

He supposedly “drowned” in 1985.

Yeah. Right. We bet he discovered North Korea wasn’t so cool after all…and wanted to return to the good ole USA…

“This is the story of Private First Class Joseph T. White, an American soldier who decided to defect to North Korea on August 28, 1982.”

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ninja

“PFC Joseph White’s Walk In The Dark: The Defection Of An American Soldier To North Korea [Part 2]”

https://m.koreatimes.co.kr/pages/article.amp.asp?newsIdx=279549

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USMC Steve

True, but in that case the level of stupid present was self curing. How dumb do you have to be to run into North Korea?

SFC D

“Bergdahl was repeatedly tortured and beaten with copper wires, rubber hoses and rifle butts. After several escape attempts, he was imprisoned in a small cage for four years,”

I’m ok with that. He should still be in a cage in Kansas.

5JC

I would say that was the best case of FA & FO I have ever seen.

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Roh-Dog

I’ve commented this elsewhere:

It’d be a real shame if something happened to him.
A real shame…

I’m sticking to that comment. Nothing more, and def no less.

E-4 Mafia 4 Life!

Bergdahl and Bradley maning are well qualified for a HANO jump (High Altitude No Opening). We could use boots/high heels on the ground in Afghanistan and North Korea.

fm2176

HANO, coupled with a precision guidance system, could help us solve two problems…

Bowe Bergdahl, your mission, should you choose to you will accept it is to eliminate a fellow deserter by the name of Travis King. Two Privates should fit in one cup afterwards, and we’ll post it on the interwebs for the enjoyment of all. Hell, such a sight might even get a smile from the Norks.

Last edited 1 year ago by fm2176
SFC D

We can run a betting pool on how high each will bounce and who bounces highest.

RCAF-CHAIRBORNE

No no….Manning should be dolled up and dropped off on a Thursday night
‘ It ‘ may actually enjoy that though 🤔

A Proud Infidel®™

Just leave him somewhere in the middle of the Khyber Pass.

MarineDad61

A P I,
Someone said Khyber Pass?
Among the best of Commander McBragg.
lolol

Last edited 1 year ago by MarineDad61
MarineDad61

Now the ELKO POW*MIA Awareness Ass
can move more of their unsold bling merch.

http://216.92.190.10/merch.html

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Reddawg_03

Are they still a thing?

MarineDad61

Reddawg_03,
Apparently YES, still a thing.
But a very small thing.
A fully exposed clown act in Elko, Nevada.
A hidden shell of its former self.
No longer monthly loud pipe convoys of Harleys on Main St.
No longer doing honor guard duty at the “big” city events
(the local American Legion post gets that nod now).

Yet some of the locals,
and even a small few from the local VFW and Legion posts,
STILL act like the Elko POW*MIA Awareness Ass
chapter is somehow legit,
or has any purpose whatsoever anymore.

That said, the OTHER regional chapters of POW*MIA
(Pocatello Idaho and about 3 others)
make NO mention of Elko on their own social media anymore.

2023 Chili Feed was CANCELLED.
2024? DAMFINO.

Some of us here are BLOCKED
on their long time page on the Book of the Fake.
But others here can save this link,
and periodically check for
humorous updates, posts, comments, and clicks.

https://www.facebook.com/Elko-POWMIA-Awareness-Association-106848159338009/

MarineDad61

Oh oh.
Elko POW*MIA Awareness Ass UPDATE…

Retired SGM Charlie Myers of Elko,Nevada.
AKA as Charles Lester Coon. (thanks SBalm)

Phony enabler and defender for BOTH Les Brown AND “LTC” Ron DaRonche,
who promptly split NV for Tennessee while hot fire was landing in Elko.

Died of cancer August 2022, in TN.
https://www.facebook.com/charlie.myers.3760

Last edited 1 year ago by MarineDad61
MarineDad61
Blaster

F him and F his gas-lightning, America hating, punk-ass dad!

Hate_me

I know there are a few attorneys here, can one weigh in? To me, it seems like the argument against Nance is a valid one, but what happens now?

Can he be re-tried and, if so, given a stronger sentence? He got off extremely light in the first place, which gave me newfound faith in the practice of vigilante justice. It would be great if this means he can actually answer for his acts within the law.

Does double jeopardy apply and he can now be honorably retired?

Please redeem my faith in our system.

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rgr769

Because Bergboi pled guilty to the charges in his court martial, his plea stands unless he moves to withdraw it. So, if he does not, then his further proceedings will likely result and a new sentencing hearing before a new military judge. But who knows what crooked deal this regime will work out with his scummy civilian defense lawer. By this time next year, Bergy will likely be collecting full disability for the dreaded PTS of D.

Hate_me

Thanks. Can he get a harsher sentence than the original?

USMC Steve

So can they retry him then?

Commissar

The Obama White House did not praise Bergdahl. They just insisted that despite what he is accused of doing they needed to get home home. And the praised his return.

Not leaving a soldier behind, even a fucked-up soldier, is not the same as praising the soldier.

The first UCMJ charges against Bergdahl were filed in 2015 under the Obama administration. Desertion, and misconduct before the enemy.

Bergdahl sought a pardon from Obama and it was denied.

Why didn’t Obama make public statements criticizing and condemning Bergdahl’s desertion?

Probably because it would be regarded as undue command influence, and used by Bergdahl’s lawyers to challenge the ability of Bergdahl to get a fair court martial preceding.

SFC D

“The Obama White House did not praise Bergdahl.”

I guessed you missed the “Allah be praised” White House rose garden ceremony. One of the greatest acts of public fellatio in American history. He was treated as a returning hero by your Lord and Master. You’re a fraud.

5JC

Bowe never went to the White House. The parents were there and Obama nearly went the “If I had son…” route but didn’t. The WH staff however was particularly dishonest.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/everything-the-white-house-told-you-about-bowe-bergdahl-was-wrong

SFC D

I’m fully aware he was never there. I didn’t say he was. Just mommy, daddy, and Obama. All three of them gobbling Taliban cock, hailing the hero. Your link is behind a paywall.

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Blaster

Exactly!!

OAM

No, just no. Obama didn’t criticize Bergdahl’s desertion and made it imperative to get him back to support the pretext of releasing those Taliban commanders.

I like the suggestion of returning Bergdahl to his former freedom fighting friends.

Blaster

Hopefully, he takes his daddy with him!

MarineDad61

Deploying the Fu of Google on Bergdahl and Elko Daily Free Press.
Not only some old chiming in (and a RIDE)
by the Elko POW*MIA Awareness Ass …..

But also, the recently departed (2022, in TN) Charlie Myers, too.

Enjoy!

https://www.google.com/search?q=bergdahl+elko+daily+free+press

MarineDad61

Way way back in 2011….
Les Brown
and his merry band of phony high ranking idiots,
Elko POW*MIA Awareness Ass.

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